Ashley and Kevin came to Paris on a promise made five years ago when they first got together. Having been friends for years prior, when they finally made the transition to a relationship, Ashley proposed that if they make it to their five year anniversary, they should go to Paris to celebrate - all the way from their home in LA. Kevin took this opportunity to make a proposition of his own.

Take an overnight bus to Amsterdam from Paris for the day, they said. It'll be fun, they said. Well, yeah, it was fun. It was also a complete blur - and not entirely for the reasons I'm sure everyone here is now assuming…

Spending only a week in Sofia, I don't feel properly equipped to make a fair judgement on the city. But, it overall left a positive impression…

Eclectic. Contradictory. Identity crisis. It's hard to describe the capital of Macedonia…

On August 12, 2017, friends and family from across Europe came to together to celebrate the marriage of Judit and Philipp in Stuttgart…

in which we saw two sunsets and one sunrise before reaching our destination…

The bus ride from Heraklion to Rethymno is worth the €8 alone - half on the windy coastal roads, the other half high up in the cretan mountains patterned with rows of olive trees…

The remaining days in Plovdiv were spent enjoying its crazy sunsets and trying desperately not to pass out from the oppressive heat by imbibing as frequently as possible in Kapana - our neighbourhood of choice…

Plovdiv will be the European Capital of Culture in 2019 - and they won't let you forget it. It's hard not to notice the seemingly overwhelming number of signs spotted across the city reminding all who walk the streets of this fact…

Thanks to social media, the days of sitting in someone’s living room, looking half-heartedly at slideshows or photo albums of their recent getaway are – thankfully – behind us…